I felt the Whizlabs was quite comparable to the actual exam. This simulator has lots of unclear questions and "I don't agree" answers. I took the practice 1 to find out where I am and then took the rest in the final week of prep. This simulator lets you customize questions e.g. all questions for EJB. I found this quite useful for a final review section by section.

Hi, Great score. Can you please share with us more about your experience in the exam. The preparation material. Is there any topics to read outside the documents you have mentioned. Also what about the Sun certified enterprise architect user guide book is it good? Thanks Mohamed HatemSCJP, SCWCD, preparing for SCEA phase I

Shogo Ito
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posted Jun 30, 2004 14:25:00

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Mohamed,

My list lacks the coverage on UML/Design Patterns. I've been using them for some time and did not need much prep except for the ones I never used such as Visitor, Prototype, etc. I think one can focus on the patterns that often appear in Java/J2EE.

Are you refering to the book from Osborne/McGraw-Hill? If so, I didn't use it at all as quite few pointed out that it has some points wrong.

The first simulator revealed what I was weak, and I focused my study on them. In the final week of prep, I focused on my test-taking strategy. e.g. keeping a track of the number of confident/not-sure/no-clue questions, which question to go back, etc. You pile up 33 confident answers and can relax :-)

Congratulations - a very good score. I would agree the Mark Cade book is useful, but only as a starting point. There is no one book that covers this exam. However, general IT knowledge gained from working in IT would also help, together with reading books around syllabus topics.

A lot of new fangled certification is available since I was a boy 2 years ago, like the Web Components Cert, so I am ganna check them out. By the way Congratulation, 97% is a very good score, but it�s not ganna be as good as mine, oyahh